Report from Nippon.com In Brief – The Japan Fair Trade Commission, the country’s competition regulator, has announced an investigation as to whether online search services that use generative artificial intelligence to craft responses could constitute an abuse of a...

Report from New York Times In Brief – New York followed California and became the second large US state to enact sweeping legislation regulating AI services as Governor Kathy Hochul signed the RAISE Act. The bill establishes a new office within the Department of...

Report from MediaPost In Brief – Tech trade group NetChoice is squaring off in federal court with the State of Virginia to block a law requiring social media platforms to verify users’ ages and prohibit teens under age 16 from using their platform for more than one...

Report from TechRadar In Brief – Cloudflare, a leading US-based online security service and content delivery network (CDN) provider, is threatening to shut down its operations in Italy after being fined €14 million by the Italian communications regulator, AGCOM, for...

Report from MediaPost In Brief – Meta Platforms WhatsApp is likely to be classified as a Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) by the European Commission which will bring it under the strictest regulatory guidelines of the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). The DSA...

Report from Reuters In Brief – A draft of the forthcoming Digital Networks Act (DNA) indicates that the European Commission will not propose requiring large online platforms and cloud providers to pay new fees to telecom operators. Expected to the released by...

Report from Reuters In Brief – Meta will temporarily exempt Italy from its ban on rival AI chatbots using WhatsApp to interact with customers. The move comes in response to the Italian competition watchdog, AGCM, ordering Meta to suspend the ban while it investigates...

Report from Bloomberg In Brief – Facing rapid escalation of President’s Trumps demand that Denmark hand over control of Greenland to the United States, including the threat that the US would impose a new 10% tariff on exports from countries that “oppose” his plan as...

Report from Mountain Top Media In Brief – Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman has sued the maker of AI companion chatbot Character.AI alleging that its platform harms children and misleads consumers about its safety. Coleman’s office argues the company marketed...